Meet our speaker - Joanna Erbel

Joanna Erbel

Joanna Erbel

CoopTech Hub

Joanna Erbel

CoopTech Hub

BIO

Sociologist, housing expert. Leader of the self-governance club at CoopTech Hub, Poland’s first cooperative technology center, which aims to create a community based on trust by digitally rebooting cooperatives and building a local cooperative ecosystem. Member of the Council of the Rental Market Foundation. She coordinated the preparation of the housing policy and the Housing2030 program for the city of Warsaw. From 2017 to 2020, she was responsible for the topic of housing innovation at PFR Real Estate. Co-author of the CTH reports: „Co-operative Equal Circles, or the economics of care in action” (2023), „Cooperative Recovery Plan” (2021) and „Cooperative Transformation and the Urban Resilience Package” (2022). She is the author of the books „Beyond Ownership. Toward a Successful Housing Policy” (2020) and „Leaning into the Future. How to change the world for the better” (2022). She is a fellow of the A/Type Foundation, which works on neurodiversity.